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The Role of Mobile Health Technology in COVID-19 Pandemic

An international task force, including two University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists, concludes in new research that mobile health (mHealth) technologies are a viable option to monitor COVID-19 patients at home and predict which ones will need medical intervention.

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Cloud and VNA Deal to Advance Regional Working and AI for NHS SWASH Consortium

A consortium of NHS trusts around the south coast of England has signed its second deal this year with imaging technology provider Sectra, in a move that is expected to advance how hospitals share and access important diagnostic imaging. A new shared multimedia archive will also allow the trusts to accelerate ambitions for initiatives including artificial intelligence.

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Scientists Identify Hundreds of Drug Candidates to Treat COVID-19

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have used machine learning to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2.

"There is an urgent need to identify effective drugs that treat or prevent COVID-19," said Anandasankar Ray, a professor of molecular, cell, and systems biology who led the research.

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Philips Makes Access to Care and Personalized Telehealth for Local Communities Real with Virtual Care Station

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the launch of Virtual Care Station[1], a telehealth environment that delivers virtual care services in convenient neighborhood locations such as retail settings, libraries, town halls and universities.

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Smartwatch Tracks Medication Levels to Personalize Treatments

Engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and their colleagues at Stanford School of Medicine have demonstrated that drug levels inside the body can be tracked in real time using a custom smartwatch that analyzes the chemicals found in sweat. This wearable technology could be incorporated into a more personalized approach to medicine - where an ideal drug and dosages can be tailored to an individual.

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Allscripts Clients Dedicated to Patient Health throughout COVID-19 Pandemic

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) and its clients have taken significant actions to ensure effective care delivery in the communities they serve. With unwavering dedication to patient health, caregivers from both large hospital systems and independent physician practices around the world continue to excel in the face of the unprecedented crisis to help manage their patients and combat the spread of the virus.

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AI may Offer a Better Way to ID Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that different strains of the same bacterial pathogen can be distinguished by a machine learning analysis of their growth dynamics alone, which can then also accurately predict other traits such as resistance to antibiotics.

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Digital-First Patient Communications at London North West Healthcare Trust Improves Clinical Capacity and Helps Save over £5M a Year

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has boosted its clinical capacity, reduced the administrative burden on staff and gained millions in potential savings by cutting missed appointments and postal costs using a digital-first approach to patient communications.

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Tool could Improve Success in Translating Drugs from Animal Studies to Humans

About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease, end up becoming resistant or unresponsive to it.

Scientists might be able to catch problems like this one earlier in the drug development process, when drugs move from testing in animals to clinical trials, with a new computational model developed by researchers from Purdue University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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NHS Trust Accelerates its Deployment of the Allscripts Information Sharing Platform

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has accelerated the roll-out of a pioneering information sharing project to support its clinicians during the coronavirus outbreak.

The trust is one of the first in the UK to adopt the Allscripts dbMotion information sharing platform, and was planning a full-scale deployment this summer, following internal testing and a proof of concept with local GPs.

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